A Novel Surface Electromyographic Signal-Based Hand Gesture Prediction Using a Recurrent Neural Network

Surface electromyographic signal (sEMG) is a kind of bioelectrical signal, which records the data of muscle activity intensity. Most sEMG-based hand gesture recognition, which uses machine learning as the classifier, depends on feature extraction of sEMG data. Recently, a deep leaning-based approach such as recurrent neural network (RNN) has provided a choice to automatically learn features from raw data. This paper presents a novel hand gesture prediction method by using an RNN model to learn from raw sEMG data and predict gestures. The sEMG signals of 21 short-term hand gestures of 13 subjects were recorded with a Myo armband, which is a non-intrusive, low cost, commercial portable device. At the start of the gesture, the trained model outputs an instantaneous prediction for the sEMG data. Experimental results showed that the more time steps of data that were known, the higher instantaneous prediction accuracy the proposed model gave. The predicted accuracy reached about 89.6% when the data of 40-time steps (200 ms) were used to predict hand gesture. This means that the gesture could be predicted with a delay of 200 ms after the hand starts to perform the gesture, instead of waiting for the end of the gesture.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 20(2020), 14 vom: 17. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
He, Changxin [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Kuo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Hand gesture prediction
Letter
Myo armband
RNN
SEMG

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Date Completed 23.03.2021

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s20143994

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312851383